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(No Model.)

M. E. OPPENHEIMEB.

FINGER RING.

No. 499,928. Patented June 20, 1893,

TH: RORHIS min 00., PHORLLI'DGOV WASHINGTON. mv c UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MILTON E. OPPENHEIMER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

FINGER-RING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 499,928, dated June 20,1893.

7 Application filed November 21, 1892. Serial No. 452,643. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it mag concern:

Be it known that I, MILroNE. OPPENHEIMER, a citizen of the United States, residing at the city, county, and State of New York, have invented an Improvement in Finger-Rings, of which the following is a specification.

Finger rings that are provided with gem or other settings have heretofore usually been made with a rigidly connected setting and shank, and in cases where the joints of apersons fingers were in any respect enlarged a ring that would slip over the joint would be too large upon the finger and therefore uncomfortable and liable to turn upon the finger.

In my improvement, the open crown forming the setting is adapted to receive the diamond or other stone and this setting is permanently secured directly to one end of the hoop or band of the ring and the end of such band closes up tightly against the other side of such setting, and a tongue and catch are provided in the crown.

In the drawings, Figure 1 illustrates by a section and partial elevation a ring embodying my improvements. Fig. 2 is a plan of the same, and Figs. 3 and 4 illustrate by partial sectional views modifications of my improvement.

a represents the shank of the ring, and b the open crownsetting. This setting may, as

"represented, be adapted to receive a diamond or other precious stone. The shank a and setting I) are permanently connected at b at one end of the shank and one part of the shank is free from the setting.

As shown in Figs. 1 and 2, the free end of the shank a is provided with a tongue 0 that passes through a mortise 2 in the side of the setting, and on the opposite side of the setting to the mortise 2 I provide an eye d, and the outer end of the tongue 0 is provided with a turned-up end or catch 0 which is adapted to pass or snap beneath the eye d to retain the free end a of the shank adjacent to the setting, and this tongue 0 also prevents lateral motion of the freeend-of the shank.

In the position shown in Figs..l and 2, the ring is of the size to fit the finger and the shank is under a strain by being held to the setting by the catch end 0'. To pass the ring over an enlarged finger joint, the free end a is slightly depressed to disengage the catch 0 from the eye (1. This permits the shank to expand by its elasticity and increase the circumference thereof and thereby the opening within the shank, thus providing more room within the ring so that it may readily be passed over the joint of the finger, after which pressure is applied to compress the shank and engage the end 0' and the eye (1 in holding the parts together in the position shown.

In the modification shown in Figs. 3 and 4, the setting b is permanently connected to one end of the shank a at the point I), as heretofore described for the other figures, but in both of these modifications the normal position of the free end a of the shank is adjacent to and coinciding with the side of the setting 17. In these cases the elasticity of the shank is likewise availed of for passing the ring over the finger joint. To do this with the modified form's shown in Figs. 3 and 4, the shank is grasped and expanded, or in other words, pulled slightly open while the ring is being passed over the joint.

In Fig. 3 the setting is provided with a mortise 2 similar to that shown in Fig. 1, and the free end a of the shank is provided with a tongue 0 which passes through this mortise and whose outer end is turned upwardly to form a catch 0 It will be seen from this construction that the tongue 0 and its catch 0 limit the extent to which the shank can be expanded, because the tongue 0 will pull through the mortise and its end c will stop against the inner surface of the setting and prevent further expansion.

In the modification shown in Fig. 4., the free end a of the shank adjacent to and coinciding with the side of the crown setting is provided with a recess at 4, and the side of the setting adjacent thereto is provided with a knob or ball5 which is adapted to be received in the recess 4. In the normal position of the parts in Fig. 4:, this recess 4 and the ball 5 are hidden from View and the free end of the shank is maintained against the side of the setting, but like the device shown in Fig. 3, this shank can be expanded or opened by pressure in passing the ring over a finger joint, the office of the recess 4 and ball 5 being to prevent lateral motion of the free end of the shank in the normalpositiou of the parts.

' specified.

I claim as-my.invention e 1. The finger ring having aLspring band antllj a tongue at its free end, and an open crown setting permanently secured to the otherend, of the spring band and having an opening for the passage of the tongue, substantially as;;

2. The combination with the spring ring band of an open crown-setting permanently! secured to one end of the spring ring and hav ing a mortise, and the other end of such springf ring settingclosely against the side :of :suchgi; open crown setting, and a .tongueon'the end of the band passing through a mortise in the open crown setting and having a stop at the: end,-substantiall yas specified. i

3. Insafinger'ring, the combination with "a a setting, of a shank permanently connected at one End to Ithesetting, th ere tbeinga mortise through the setting at the side opposite to that at which one end of theshank is secured,-

a tongue a passing through the mortise in the asetting,andtconnectedtto the.free end of the 'shank'and having aturned up end or catch 0, an eye d connected within the setting and adapted to be engaged by the catch 0' in securing the parts, substantially as set forth.

Signed by me this 16th day of November, @1892.

MILTON lzE. OPPENHEIMEB.

Witnesses: GEO. T. 'PI-NGKN-EY, HAROLD SEE-REEL. 

